Mr. N's Kimchee Base

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 4 garlic cloves, minced (large)
• 2 -3 teaspoons salted shrimp (find in jars at the korean grocers)
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce (preferably a thai brand)
• 5 tablespoons korean hot red pepper (don't substitute this)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons ginger juice (grated ginger squeezed to get the juice)
• 2 pieces salted anchovies (again, find this in jars at the korean grocers)
• 1 napa cabbage (large, washed and cut into bite-sized pieces)
• 1/4 cup salt (scant)
• 1 bunch green onion (washed and sliced into 2 inch lengths)

Recipe

• 1 combine first 7 ingredients in a bowl and refrigerate.
• 2 put the napa cabbage in a large bowl.
• 3 stir and rub the scant 1/4 cup of salt onto the napa cabbage.
• 4 press overnight until the liquid rises out of the napa cabbage -- don't add water and don't drain.
• 5 to press, use a lid that is smaller than the bowl you are using and put some sort of weight on the top.
• 6 add to taste the kimchee base that you prepared the night before to the napa cabbage and its liquid.
• 7 mix in the green onions, if desired.
• 8 refrigerate and serve the next day.
• 9 the base can be used for cucumbers instead of napa cabbage, following the directions above but substituting cucumbers instead.